I run my servers without any of those Admin Panels and I’m on Win7, I used to run something called ‘Minestart’ (My co-owner set it up so don’t ask me about it) which has it’s own server which pings the server to see if it’s up and if it’s not, it restarts it. Is this how yours works? If not, is it something you could do?
Unfortunately, at the moment this plugin requires something like an Admin panel to recognise the restart.
I have been looking into ways to integrate a fully automatic feature recently but I’m not greatly experienced so I’m still unsure on how to implement it properly.
The plugin itself unfortunatly does not have the capability to fully restart a server by itself. It still requires an outside force (For example a control panel like McMyAdmin) to recognise that the server has been shut down.
This is something I am working on atm, its taking me a little bit unfortunately since i am attempting to integrate it to the current broadcasting code instead of having to redo it.
The restart is usually automatically handled by the panel but since in your case it is not. the only way to get it to do so is to use the automated tasks feature which is offered for an extra 4$ by your host i believe. Most panels that have this feature allow you to listen for if the server stops to then start it back up. which is great for when the server crash’s too.
What version of the plugin are you currently using and if you could provide full details of the config file you are using, that would help me out alot for diagnosing this problem.